Texas Couple Accused of Waterboarding 13-Year-Old Boy
Source: ABC News
A North Texas woman and her boyfriend have been jailed for allegedly punishing her 13-year-old son by tying a rope around his genitals and subjecting him to waterboarding, authorities said Thursday.
The boy told investigators the incident occurred in late January. The man allegedly grabbed the boy by the hair, pinned him down and held a towel over his face as the woman poured water over his head and nose, according to an affidavit filed by a Kaufman County sheriff's investigator.
The affidavit notes the tactic is known as waterboarding, which was once used by the U.S. to question terror suspects but has since been banned.
"The victim said that he was able to breathe slightly if he moved his head to the side and that kept him from feeling like he was drowning," the affidavit said.
The woman then tied a rope around the boy's genitals and the back of his neck, and the man left the boy in a curled position for five to 10 minutes, according to the affidavit. The boy told authorities the incident occurred after he told the man he inappropriately touched the family dog.
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People just do unexplainably sick stuff all the time.
Bernardo de La Paz
(49,011 posts)RKP5637
(67,111 posts)passiveporcupine
(8,175 posts)usually have sexual issues themselves. IMHO
RKP5637
(67,111 posts)their gratification while claiming they are doing it in the name of their god, justice, therapy, bad behavior, or whatever other excuse they dream up. But the bottom line is generally the same, sexual exploitation.
skepticscott
(13,029 posts)have Faux News on all the time, yeah. To them, this seems perfectly ok.
Ex Lurker
(3,814 posts)for his own sake, and that of society. Whatever issues he had before this, the waterboarding has turbocharged them.
Kelvin Mace
(17,469 posts)and legalize torture, this is what happens.
bobthedrummer
(26,083 posts)farleftlib
(2,125 posts)Although I doubt the defense lawyer will attempt to pass this off as a harmless "frat prank" because if he did, he'd be run out of the courtroom on a rail. Rightly so.
Odin2005
(53,521 posts)LiberalArkie
(15,719 posts)But I guess they can be busted for touching a naked boy.
Plucketeer
(12,882 posts)We did have a president who set precedent for such procedures. And he's currently stumping for another White House hopeful!
SoapBox
(18,791 posts)No one in this country would ever have known about "water boarding" if it weren't for Bush, Cheney, Rumsfeld, Rice, etc. and their evil bunch.
knightmaar
(748 posts)The US executed Japanese jailers for it after WW2.
http://www.politifact.com/virginia/statements/2015/jan/12/bobby-scott/bobby-scott-after-wwii-us-executed-japanese-war-cr/
CommonSenseDemocrat
(377 posts)Dont call me Shirley
(10,998 posts)Jefferson23
(30,099 posts)their own parents.
keithbvadu2
(36,829 posts)Now we have Dubya as an example of waterboarding as appropriate discipline.
tabasco
(22,974 posts)We are a stupid, hateful, cruel species.